Role
Lisa Selby is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art.
Career overview
Lisa Selby is an Artist and Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her work revolves around the personal, societal, and political impacts of drink and drug addiction.
Lisa Co-Directed the 2023 @BAFTA Nominated Feature Film ‘Blue Bag Life’ (Audience Award Winner @BFI London Film Festival, 2022).
The Instagram account @bluebaglife is a growing community for shared stories about drug and drink addiction, mental health, and love.
Lisa studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Prior to joining Nottingham Trent University she worked as a lecturer at University of the Arts Norwich.
She has been awarded funding from Royal British Society of Sculptors (2014), Firstsite and The British Arts Council (2016), Arts Council England (2019) and published a chapter in ‘Prison: a survival guide’ (Penguin, 2019) author and activist Carl Cattermole.
Research areas
Lisa’s research explores themes of addiction, mental health and incarceration and uses documentary and storytelling .
Throughout Lisa’s career she has focused on social structures and hierarchy in British society. Current themes include the examination of prisons, incarceration, drug addiction and support networks.
Previous work explored gender stereotyping, questioning socially constructed attributions of ‘femininity’ and how it linked to domestic ornament, be it the tea ritual or botanical drawings.
External activity
Annual Judge for Koestler Awards
Blue Bag Life on BBC Storyville
Annual Judge for Recovery Street Festival UK
SELBY, L., 2019. Having a partner in prison. In: C. CATTERMOLE, ed., Prison: a survival guide. London: Penguin, pp. 84-102. ISBN 9781529103496
TedX Talk, Kingston Addiction and prison: the undoing of shame
Solo Exhibition Bang Up, Outpost Gallery 8 Feb – 3 March 2019
Sponsors and collaborators
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance